Daily Search Forum Recap: October 15, 2010

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

Google Testing AdWords At Bottom Again
Google is apparently testing placing AdWords ads at the bottom of the search results, again. A WebmasterWorld thread has two people reporting seeing this recently. One said: I never noticed this before maybe it's not new. I see 3 Adwords Ads on top of the serps as usual and 3 at the bottom directly below the 10th result. There are no Ads at all to the right side of any keywords I check. Scott added:

Surprise: Google's Q3 2010 Earnings Up
Fine, maybe not a surprise, but Google released their third quarter earnings for 2010 yesterday. Here are the highlights: Revenues of $7.29 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2010, an increase of 23% compared to the third quarter of 2009.GAAP operating income in the third quarter of 2010 was $2.55 billion, up from $2.07 billion previous year.GAAP net income in the third quarter of 2010 was $2.17 billion, compared to $1.64 billion in the

Google Product Search Adds Advanced Usage Settings
Those of you who submit product feeds to Google Product Search, aka Google Merchant Center may want to know about a new advanced usage setting they just released. As Ronald from Google describes in a Google Merchant Center Help thread: In order to give you more control over your feeds and items appearing in Google Product Search, Adwords product extensions and Google Commerce Search, weâ€™re launching some advanced feed usage settings in the Merchant Center.

Yahoo Was "Down a Bit" Yesterday Afternoon
What else can go wrong for Yahoo, I mean, seriously kick them when they are down? Yesterday afternoon, Yahoo.com - the main web site - was offline for just about an hour. It technically seemed to be up, but incredibly slow, taking me personally close to a minute for it to load at times. I wrote about it at Search Engine Land as soon as I saw people Tweeting about it. During the outage, I